It is a fascinating novel by Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, published in 1995. Considered one of his best known, along with all the names.
The novel tells how a strange epidemic of white blindness spreads through the entire country, putting a society in chaos, and placing it on the brink of destruction.
The first infected is a man waiting in his car outside a stoplight and thereafter extends through those close to him, so he misses his wife never contracted it. The authorities began to round up those involved and are quarantined in an old, abandoned, the old asylum. With the passing days, the disease is unstoppable and despite attempts the streets are filled with blind. As you increase the fear and the crisis in the country, people gradually become prey to the basest instincts of man, reaching more miserable end.
The profound selfishness that mark the various characters in the struggle for survival, becomes a parable of contemporary society and to transcend the meaning of blindness beyond the physical disease itself.
This is a story that reflects the reality of our species, and shows the human nature from its most painful, hatred.
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